Galaxy Backbone Ltd and the Government of Nigeria in partnership with Extensia Uk will be hosting Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit 2016 in Abuja. Nigeria’s hosting of the IAD, a flagship summit now in its 14th year, has received the approval of the Federal Ministry of Communications.
Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit focuses on Africa’s growth and development by taking full advantage of the huge investments in ICT connectivity and innovation. The summit brings diverse stakeholders ranging from Government Agencies and Departments, MNOs, Telcos, ISPs, Financial Institutions, Retailers and other customer facing service providers to deliberate and develop strategies that leverage ICT innovations for economic developments. IAD Summit 2016 will be held from April 19th – 21st at Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja Nigeria with Galaxy Backbone/Ministry of Communications as the summit partners.
In his comment, Yusuf Kazaure, Managing Director/CEO Galaxy Backbone Ltd, said the key benefit of hosting the 2016 edition is that “Nigeria being the most connected country on the African Continent, the IAD Summit in Abuja will publicly demonstrate the importance of ICT as a central pillar to Nigeria’s socio – economic development. Also, it provides valuable opportunity to demonstrate Nigeria’s role as a regional leader and role-model for other African nations”.
IAD Summit 2016 with the theme, ‘Harnessing Africa’s Digital Growth’ will assess how ICT can support national and regional development objectives, engagement strategies, operational efficiencies and QoS improvements.
As a demonstration of Nigeria’s commitment to ensure a truly pan-African summit, the Minister of Communications Adebayo Shittu has sent out letters of invitation to over 50 Ministers of ICT from different African nations.
Attendees will include Ministers of ICT, Heads of Regulatory Authorities, CXOs from telecoms service providers and High-Throughput ICT end Users from across Africa together with a select number of solution providers, vendors, consultants and investors who can support key business requirements.
About Galaxy Backbone Limited
Galaxy Backbone Ltd is a public institution charged with building and operating shared ICT Infrastructure and services for all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
The establishment of Galaxy Backbone by the Federal Government was driven by the need for Government to pursue a cohesive and harmonized approach to information and communications technology acquisition, deployment and utilization in the public sector.
The company has the mandate to build and operate a Nationwide Broadband network that provides IP-based Connectivity services to all Federal Government MDAs and institutions. Galaxy is focused on providing ICT infrastructure, applications and services to all Federal Government MDAs and institutions which includes but not limited to managing Government Data Centers and databases, Directory Services, National Information Repositories, IP-telephony and other solutions/services delivered on the shared platform.
It’s a welcomed development, with this I can say that Nigeria is growing in terms of ICT and we can even get better.
I hope the summit will address all the issue facing the ICT sector of nigerian economy. This summit should develop strategies, policies and programmes that will move ICT sector of the nigerian sector. The ICT sector is regarded as the second highest revenue earner for the country after crude oil. This summit should focus more on the growth and development of
ICT sector of the nigerian economy to make it the first highest revenue earner for the country. There are still many areas of the ICT sector that needs to be developed. Since it is a pan african summit where stakeholders from all over the continent will be present. I think the african continent has a lot gain from this summit in terms of ICT sector development.
interesting how Nigeria is the most connected country in Africa, thought it was RSA
Concerning the development of ICT innthe country, the Federal Government has done well in this regard, giving the necessary support to the Backbone Galaxy Ltd.
This is a big step forward in terms of ICT growth in nigeria and africa at large.
Wow. So Nigeria has a public body which solely manages ICT amenities for the government. That’s nice to hear and it’s great coup for the to bring IAD 2016 to Nigeria. I’m sure the summit will be a way of attracting more investors, Nigeria definitely has a wealth of opportunities
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